Following a court ruling, the EFF and several news sources world-wide have reported about the practice to search through the data on electronic devices at the US border. Bruce Schneier has picked up the topic in his latest cryptogram (a newletter). So far everyone seems to have ignored or neglected another possibility: targeted spyware.
In fact I am not just talking about the usual spyware, but software that was written with the sole purpose of going undetected as long as possible and possibly being able to transmit as much data as possible. Spyware in a literal sense.
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